4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
1:57 p.m.
The demise of CRTs is not something I'm
crying over,
Me neither, in theory.
But even the cheapest of CRTs could usually autosync to a video signal
without putting half a character - or sometimes more - off the edge of
the visible display, something I regularly find "modern" flatscreens
doing. And this is when connected to peecees, too.
And I have a CRT that's willing to sync to a much-too-wide video
signal, just squashing it down. It doesn't look good, but it mostly
Hmmm. SOme CRT monitors, if fed a signal with the wrong horizontal scan
rate, could end up wdamaging partis in the hoizotnal output stage. I
think I'd prefer 'Sorry I can't display that'.
works; text is legible, for example. Modern
flatscreens usually
display nothing, or at most an "I can't display this" box, instead of
doing something sensible with such input.
-tony